China's self-adhesive label printing industry chain has matured and improved

Since the 1990s, the self-adhesive label printing market that meets the requirements of automatic labeling has developed rapidly, which has driven the development of the label printing market to industrialization. The label printing market has formed a relatively complete industrial chain and has a considerable industrial scale.

Material supply
A group of self-adhesive label material suppliers, represented by the world’s largest adhesive material supplier Ellie Dennison and Japan Lindeke, are optimistic about China’s fast-growing market since the 1990’s. Since entering China, they have greatly promoted the rapid development of the market. Avery entered China in 1994 and invested nearly 30 million U.S. dollars in the production of adhesive label material production bases in Kunshan. Sales branches quickly spread throughout the country. Recently, the company has invested more than 30 million U.S. dollars to build factories in Guangzhou. In addition, in order to improve the level of processing technology for domestic self-adhesive label printing, Avery also invested nearly 2 million US dollars to establish the first professional label printing and processing training center in the Asia-Pacific region. Japan Lindeke Company invested 30 million US dollars in 2003 to build a self-adhesive and release paper production line in the two phases of Suzhou New District. The second phase of the project has an annual output of 8 million square meters of self-adhesive. In Longgang, Wenzhou and Zhongshan, Guangdong, a number of strong private label materials suppliers have also emerged. Only in these two places, there are no less than 10 self-adhesive label material suppliers.

2. Equipment supply
Since 2002, the major overseas brand flexographic printer dealers have shifted their sales focus to narrow-web flexo printers suitable for sticker printing. According to statistics, at present, there are nearly 400 overseas flexographic production lines (including wide-width) imported by packaging and printing companies in China, as well as the number of self-developed unit-type flexographic lines in China (320 of which are imported, accounting for 80%; 80 are domestic products, accounting for 20%), imported equipment mainly from Gallas, McAndy, Nilpeter, Allied Gear, W&H, F&K, etc. In 2002, 70% of newly installed flexographic printers on the domestic market were used for label printing. At the same time, some domestic traditional printing equipment manufacturers, such as Shanghai Ziguang, Shaanxi Beiren, Qingzhou Yigao, Xi'an Black Bull, and Beiren Fuji, have targeted the self-adhesive label printing market and have developed high-quality narrow-format flexographic printing presses.

At the same time, well-known mainstream brand Toppan label printer suppliers have also set up offices and service centers in China, such as Lindeke, Luo Tie, Wan Hao and so on. The famous SANKl and Ko-Pack label printing equipment also has agents in China. More and more suppliers of auxiliary processing equipment (such as die cutting equipment, tool making, etc.) have begun to set up offices or processing bases in large and medium-sized cities in China. Now, the problem of post-processing of the label printing manufacturers has been better resolved. For example, the rotary press die cutting tools for flexo presses must be custom-made for foreign manufacturers. Now they can be purchased in places like Shanghai and Guangzhou.

3. Sticker printing
A batch of foreign professional label printing companies entered this market in advance. These manufacturers have many years of experience in foreign countries specializing in printing stickers. They have brought advanced printing processing equipment, printing processing technology and management experience to the domestic market. After several years of development, some foreign-funded label printing plants have reached an annual output value of 100 million yuan. At present, this market is still attracting more foreign-funded printing companies. There are more than 20 foreign self-adhesive label printing plants in Shanghai (including Suzhou). Second, large-scale state-owned and private printing companies are also paying attention to this market. For example, Shenzhen Jinjia, Gaojiao, Guilin Aoqun, Shanghai Spinning Li & Fung, Shanghai Bump, Shanghai People's Printing Factory No. 8, and Huzhou Tianwai have all added advanced flexo printing equipment to compete in the label printing market. Label printing has become a new economic growth point for these printing companies.

Label printing process is maturing
With a number of powerful foreign label printing companies entering the Chinese market, advanced printing equipment and printing processes have also been introduced into China. The foreign label printing market started earlier than the domestic market. They introduced more mature equipment and experience into the country and made some contributions to improving the domestic label printing process. Nowadays, more and more adhesive label printing equipment suppliers have entered China. The equipment and technical services they provide have, to a certain extent, improved the technological level of domestic self-adhesive label printing companies.

Development of Label Printing

1. Flexo is the ideal way for future label printing
Almost 80% of developed countries in the developed countries are used for printing stickers. As the unit type flexo presses can be combined in any combination, various types of labels can be printed in the case of complete spare parts, including short live and special labels. Flexo printing is the ideal way to print stickers in the label industry.

2. UV flexo printing develops rapidly, with the trend of replacing UV embossing
Label printing requires bright colors. Since the color of UV flexo printing ink can approach that of UV embossing ink, the structure of the flexo printing machine is simpler than that of the embossing press. Therefore, foreign printing companies have adopted UV flexo printing instead of UV embossing to reduce costs.

3. Combination printing will have a faster development
Combined presses can be combined in a variety of different printing methods on a single press to meet the requirements of different customers. This is also the most advanced label processing equipment we have seen at foreign exhibitions. The use of a combined printing press not only can increase the production efficiency, meet the processing requirements of certain special requirements for labels, and can avoid the waste of manpower and material resources.

4. New materials and new processes are widely used
Materials, processes and equipment are the three major elements of label printing. With new materials and new processes, various types of new labels can be processed on the combined press. Multi-layer labels for the pharmaceutical industry, double-sided labels for the cosmetics industry, film labels, electronic labels, in-mold labels on smart oil drums, smart labels, and anti-counterfeit labels, which are manufactured using new materials and new processes. of.

Source of information: pack.cn